David Believed Christ Could Save Everyone but Himself
“That just fills my heart with such love for Jesus Christ, that He would do that, that He would descend below me. I mean, it kind of scares me that He had to go through that much, but I just am so thankful for Him and what He has done for me. I just truly have had a change of heart.” – Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ – If you have a story to share please submit here: https://comebackpodcast.org/submissions/ – For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com – Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Depression, Trauma & Infidelity… Jevonne & Michealle’s Journey Back to Jesus Christ
“Our Savior loves us no matter what we do. Whatever comes our way, whatever we do, He loves us, and He’s able to see through the hurt. He’s able to see through whatever it is we’re doing, the actual action that we’re displaying to the world because of our hurt.” – Find Jevonne & Michealle on social media: “TheBranchFamChronicles” on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok – 00:00 Crisis in Marriage 08:19 Race, Records, and Re-Baptism 13:21 Trauma and Turning Point 28:10 Let People In 33:52 Forgiveness After Betrayal 40:48 Answering Priesthood History – Mike’s Auto Shack https://mikesautoshack.com/ Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ – If you have a story to share please submit here: https://comebackpodcast.org/submissions/ For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com – Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Ashly Stone & Jeff Strong: Why People Leave the LDS Church… and Come Back
“I just believe that God is found in the messiness. We just need to have faith that even when it makes no sense and nothing seems to be working, that it’s in that very messiness that He will find us. That’s how it’s supposed to be. It’s not supposed to be clean and linear. It’s meandering and messy and crazy, and then He reaches through the fog of that, and He finds us.” – Find Jeff’s book “Torn” here – https://www.tornbyjeffstrong.com/ – 00:00 Conformity and Agency 14:59 Family Faith Crisis Begins 30:35 Why People Step Away 48:00 Let Them Choose 51:37 Agency Changes Everything 01:03:20 Repairing Ruptures 01:10:06 Gatherers Not Sifters – Jewelry code COMEBACK for 10% off https://memorjewelry.com/ Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ If you have a story to share please submit here: https://comebackpodcast.org/submissions/ – For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com – Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
I Thought God Didn’t Love Me… Then I Found My Way Back | Katie’s Come Back Story
“When things don’t go the way you think they should or fit in the box, it’s so easy to feel like, oh I failed, or God doesn’t love me, or things like that. But that is not true. Your worth does not change depending on what’s happening. No matter where you’re at, what choices you’re making, none of those things change your worth.” – 00:00 Faith Shaken 06:52 Worth And Church Pressure 14:19 Burnout Doubts And Stepping Away 31:54 Epiphany 36:21 Choosing Belief 38:39 It’s Scary to Come Back 47:20 Worth – Memor Jewelry code MOTHERSDAY for 20% off – only before Mother’s Day https://memorjewelry.com/ Serve Clothing code COMEBACK for 15% off https://serveclothing.com/ – If you have a story to share please submit here: https://comebackpodcast.org/submissions/ – For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com – Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Ashly Stone interviews Don Bradley at the FAIR Conference August 2025
“For those who are struggling with doubt, one thing that I would say is keep hold of the things that you do know are true. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Whatever has worked in your life, spiritually, make sure you keep doing that. Don’t let yourself get so focused no the things that you are struggling with, or that are disturbing to you, that you stop doing those things. Those things can serve as an anchor.” If you have a story to share please contact ashly.comebackpodcast@gmail.com For inquiries contact info.comebackpodcast@gmail.com Come Back Team: Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell
After being stripped of his pride, Rico works through his faith crisis and grows closer to Jesus Christ.
“Just as the Psalmist said, ‘pride goeth before the fall.’ And boy, did I learn that lesson. If I were to boil it down to what is the one thing that is different about me from before my crisis and after my crisis, it is that I was stripped, completely stripped, of my pride. The Lord needed to compel me to be humble. I was one of those foolish ones that needed to be compelled to be humble. I think of all the things I learned through that experience, I’d like to think that now I am a more humble person, I no longer aspire for those callings, which was a big part of who I was through most of my adult life. I now see other people in a different way. I see people with greater love and greater compassion. I just feel the love of the Savior as I look at each person. I just see people through a different lens because that pride is being stripped away.” Rico’s Book: Enduring a Crisis of Faith https://amzn.to/4342sg3 https://mikesautoshack.com/ Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Cara Reed Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Episode Sponsor: Brick House Recovery https://brickhouserecovery.com/
After years away from the church, Marcy has a near death experience that taught her the truth of temple covenants.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains sensitive content that may be triggering or offensive to some audiences. Parental discretion is advised. “One thing I had never shared with anyone about my near death experience, but now I do is, my brother said to me, ‘see, Marcy, it’s real.’ And I knew he wasn’t talking about heaven. He was talking about our temple covenants and I knew it. I just knew that is what he was talking about! And I had not told anyone this. Then my mother was in the temple on a separate occasion, and she saw my brother and he said the same thing to her. ‘See, that it’s real.’ She told me this and I said, mom, that’s one of the things that he said to me. It made me realize I need to speak to that. I need to tell people this. He wasn’t talking about heaven. He wasn’t talking about the spirit world. He was talking about our temple covenants.” Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Cara Reed Assistant Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia
Holly was a DIY influencer with over one million followers – until she decided to switch gears and use her platform to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.
“I would pride myself on having a simple testimony. I would always say that. It’s simple. And it was, and it is, the gospel of Jesus Christ is so simple. And that’s all that we’re required to have, right? This faith and belief in Jesus Christ. I had that, but I really didn’t have much more than that. So having to open my life up to answering these questions really, really made me dig into our faith and what I believe and answer some questions that I had that I put up on a shelf. I really had to start dusting off some questions and lean in on that. A lot of the stuff that you guys talk about on your podcast, with the history of our church and, polygamy and Joseph Smith and, all of the things that everyone has questions about or tries to poke holes in. I had all those same questions and I feel like if I wouldn’t have opened myself up, to answering questions about my faith, I feel like I would still just be coasting. Like in that same pre-2020 era of my life where I was like it’s simple. I just have a simple testimony.” – Recommended for investigating difficult church-related questions from a faithful perspective: – https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/ – https://www.lightandtruthletter.org/ – Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Episode sponsor: Serve Clothing https://serveclothing.com/?gad_source=1
Austin’s faith crisis went on for 10 years. After his search for more light and truth he wrote his own response to the CES Letter.
“There’s very logical reasons to be members of the church, and very logical reasons to believe in a higher power –something beyond that’s bigger than us, that has a spiritual aspect. This isn’t irrational, this is rational. And so once you can get back into realizing that belief is reasonable, then you can ask the questions that will truly give you a testimony through prayer and study and pondering those primary answers we hear all the time. I talk about the heart and the head. I believe that we can, and should, have knowledge in our heart, feeling emotion, yearning for God, along with rationality and reason. For me, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is God’s true and living church on the earth. I know that in my heart and I know it in my head. I have both of those. I think critics have had their way for a long time trying to convince people that there’s no reason to have a rational testimony. But the ‘Light and Truth Letter,’ it’s showing that it is reasonable — and rational to believe, there’s a lot of space for belief. My hope is that if you’re struggling and you’re a believing member, but having doubts — If that’s the case for you and you’re telling yourself, there’s no way the church could be true. That’s not you talking. That’s the critic parroting. You’re parroting a critic, because there’s lots of reasons to believe. I try to lay it all out in the ‘Light and Truth Letter.’ To show all of the positive evidences that there are for the church and that it’s actually really rational and reasonable to believe. There is a preponderance of evidence that is more for us than against us. And for me — that’s enough to believe. And once I made that decision, then God could do something with me.” https://www.lightandtruthletter.org/ Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia
Kat’s testimony of the strength that comes within God’s church – that she couldn’t find anywhere else
“The thought of the temple came to my mind and to my heart so clearly that I had a homesickness for it. I also had a remembrance that I could go there and within those walls, while not everything is solved or fixed, everything is okay. You leave feeling like everything is okay. You’re elevated. At that moment, I’m like, I know I have to take the steps to get back to the temple. I have to make this an active part of my life – not just a thought. I have to say that receiving the restoration of my temple blessings was the most incredibly profound experience I’ve had in coming to know the power – the atoning power – of my Savior, Jesus Christ.” contact Kat: knelsonartist@gmail.com https://www.plantwhys.com/comeback Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia